Snapshots mostly from the 1920s and 1930s. They include photos of the IWW’s in-house historian, Fred Thompson, IWW General Secretary-Treasurer Walter Westman, General Executive Board Chairman Charles Velsek, Industrial Worker editor Carl Keller, IWW cartoonist Bill Henkelman, and several notable IWW women activists: Jennie Ambrose, Edith Cutler, Virginia Hadley, Fannie Keller, Jenny Lahti Velsek, and Aino Thompson. Several are group photos taken at IWW picnics in Chicago in the 1940s Also included are snapshots taken in Yakima during an IWW harvest organizing drive in the late 1920s and early 1930s, a group photo taken at the Haymarket Martyrs’ Memorial Monument at Forest Home Cemetery of the delegates who attended the IWW’s 26th convention in 1950, and a class photo from the Work People's College. See finding aid for more information.

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